The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years …. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive … effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a negative business stealing effects from product market rivals. We develop …

estimates of the tax_price elasticity of R&D and the effect of R&D on productivity. For the latter we allow R&D to have an …

In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers in-crease Southern purchasing power, which lifts … from a baseline OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China …

This paper studies the implications of perceived default risk for aggregate output and productivity. Using a model of … credit across firms with heterogeneous productivity. Further, we find that these losses accounted for over half of the … productivity fall between 2008 and 2009, and persisted for smaller (although not larger) firms. …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …

quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …